"As he once had placed his hooks, and came to empty them, he shall have noticed, that it bit on the hook; when he pulled up, he felt, that it was very heavy, therefore meaning, that some big fish was on the same; when he got the hook out of the water, he shall have been ghastly frightened, for he became aware, that at the same sat a fish, who to the waist looked like a small child of 3 á 4 years of age, with curly and hard hairs on the head, but the lower part of the body shall probably have resembled a fish; the hook had gone through the lip on this monster of the sea, which now sounded and wept like a child;